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What is meant by print revolution explain it\'s significance |
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Answer» Print revolution is revolution in which the hand printng change into machine printing. The first print machine was developed by the gutenburg and its significance :— before printed books flooded the market the common people used to gatherin public places and book were read out to them. They heard sacred text read out, balled recited and flok tales narrated. Print revolution is baisically the changes that took place in the field of print before printing presses were invented by guthenburg .PRINT REVOLUTION AND ITS IMPACTS:1.with the printing press, a new reading public emerged.Printing\xa0reduced the cost of books.2. The time and labour required to produce\xa0each book came down, and multiple copies could be produced\xa0with greater ease. 3.Books flooded the market, reaching out to an\xa0ever-growing readership.\xa0Access to books created a new culture of reading. 4.Earlier, reading\xa0was restricted to the elites. Common people lived in a world of oral\xa0culture. 5.Before the age of\xa0print, books were not only expensive but they could not be produced\xa0in sufficient numbers. Now books could reach out to wider sections\xa0of people. But the transition was not so simple. Books could be read only by\xa0the literate, and the rates of literacy in most European countries\xa0were very low till the twentieth century. 6.Print created the possibility of wide circulation of\xa0ideas, and introduced a new world of debate and\xa0discussion. Even those who disagreed with\xa0established authorities could now print and circulate\xa0their ideas. Through the printed message, they could\xa0persuade people to think differently, and move them\xa0to action. This had significance in different spheres\xa0of life.Thank you?? |
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